What a fab logo spent quite a lot of time playing with it today, well, it was much more exciting than counting sheets of paper......

Disney artist Mary Blair is celebrated in today Google logo

It's a fun Hallowe'en logo today

Marie Curie on today's Google logo

My chemistry teacher at school was the spitting image of Marie Curie. I remember getting quite a shock when I saw MC's photograph in a book and thinking, 'It's Mrs. H'!

An Edmond Halley Google tribute today

Louis Daguerre's anniversary celebrated today.

Pity it isn't a Pudsey Google logo, if you ask me...

An excellent Google logo today, do have a go at all the puzzles on it

It celebrates the life and works of Stanislaw Lem : his first book was published 60 years ago today.

Great fun, though to start with I had no idea what I was doing

Mark Twain logo today

Had never heard of Robert Noyce before today : but he had much to do with the invention of the microchip, and he's celebrated on today's Google logo.

If you type let it snow into google today it snows on your computer screen, and if you leave it your screen mists up - and you can wipe it off with your mouse (or hit the blue defrost button). Great fun!!

Brilliant!

Really clever.

It's not working for me...

Very clever!

This was the best Google Doodle logo on music:

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

Indeed it was! We need more of those...

Well, you've got one that plays 'Jingle Bells' today...

that's fab

Ah, but it doesn't let me play it for myself.

Very pretty, though.


EDIT: Just googled again and it does let me play!

The Christmas 2011 logo with the coloured squares flashing rapidly in line is retrogressive - think of the quickfire screen pattern on London Weekend Television in the 70s/80s between the adverts.

That's brilliant

Car Expert

*feels old*

would like a translation...

Didn't Granada TV have one then???

I don't remember the LWT thingy (and I was in London in the early 80s), but I love the Jingle Bells

Don't know.

sbhoa, long long before ITV1 became national and things were on at different times in different regions, on LWT (but not Thames) in between the adverts there was this rapid pattern of small white squares moving from left to right across a black screen before the last white square would swell in size to fill the screen. This would happen really quickly before anyone could ask what was going on.

My own region, ATV used tohave its own screen pattern between the ads, with the two 'eyes' of the ATV logo, but was discontinued in the late 1970s, whilst LWT's continued into the 80s.

In the 90s, Westcountry TV (serving an area of SW England southwest of Bridgwater and Glastonbury and west of Dorchester) had a brief 'W' logo which would pop up between the ads. Nowadays on what has become 'ITV1' we see the logo at the beginning and end of commercial time only, with just a blank screen in between each ad.

Bit of telly history for you there. English telly has to be the best in the world!!!!

Just goes to show how observant I am.
Or maybe we used to use the adverts as time to do essential things like....brewing up and stuff....

Couldn't find the LWT one, but this is the ATV break bumper

Gosh, thank you Barry! The last time I saw that was on our old Phillips dual standard B/W set rented from Visionhire with the huge dial you'd turn to '4' for BBC1 and '8' for ATV. Mind you I don't miss it as much as our old Sobell radiogram with the broken steel legs that every Sunday morning my mother would move to clean behind, then put back plug in and turn on in time for Family Favourites with Jean Challis (which you had to switch to 1500 metres Long Wave for). All those BFPO's, were they some sort of subversive coded messages, methought????...

Made my Christmas!!!

Found the LWT break bumper now too. Type 'LWT adverts 1976' into Google, then click on the top link

Seen it thanks, also some links from Thames featuring in-vision announcer Diddy David Hamilton, who also had his afternoon show on Radio 1 at the same time.

Also found some vintage audio stuff as well. 'Isn't it good to know, Capital Radio' and 'It's a beautiful day on 1-9-4'.

I remember Capital Radio 194

A New Year Google logo today

Nice.

Very Seasonal, too.

...and a New Year Resolution Google logo today

The logo today is a drawing to commemorate the centenary of Charles Addams, the American cartoonist and creator of the Addams family. After all the animations and fun of previous doodles, this is rather tame, if still fun to have there.

Just usual old boring google logo on google.co.cr

And if I try and go to google.com I get taken back to the Costa Rica google page

(The ABRSM website does this too - can't see UK exam dates and fees. )

125th anniversary of the largest snowflake commemorated on the Google logo today

Not by Google Costa Rica.

Now I wonder why that would be...

Does Google Costa Rica commemorate anything?...

Yse, very occasionally... just not snowflakes, as they are unheard of here.

I did eventually find out how to see what you're looking at. Going to google.com was useless because it just directs me back to google.co.cr but fortunately google.co.uk works.

You should find that all individual country Google pages should work. Useful for, let's say, seeing the French logo for July 14th...

Google are at it again. They have a logo today (or rather, a choice of three logos) commemorating Francois Truffaut's 80th birthday (or would have been, had he lived beyond 52).

I had never heard of him either - the logo links to stories about him.

Dickens by Disney (well, not really, but it looks like it).

Actually, I think it looks far WORSE than Disney...